IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 215487 accession number: P.14542-R DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 14 February 2017 updated: Friday 26 January 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A comic woodcut valentine on thin wove paper which has been cut down and pieced together in places with remnants of other printed material affixed. A hand-coloured woodcut of a young woman sitting at her toilette in her underclothes having her corset unlaced by a foul old man with pointed, vampire-like teeth. A verse is printed below: 'So an old man's darling you would be, / To have the dotard wait on thee; / That he can wait for you 'tis plain, / But you may wait for him in vain. / Better be a young man's slave / Than such a helpless HELPMATE have. / What joy in marriage can there be, / 'Tween such as him and such as thee.'. A printed image of a child's head cut and pasted from another source has been placed between the woman's legs. This intentional defacement of the original image occurs in several cheap comic woodcuts found in the 'Chamberlain envelope', which have additional text or imagery cut and pasted into the original and/or imagined speech (often very lewd in content) added in the form of graphite inscriptions written in the same hand (not Glaishers). Glaisher presumably bought these as a group from another collection. See also P.14543-R, P.14545-R and P.14547-R. title: Valentine card LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints creditline: Bequeathed by Dr J. W. L. Glaisher, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/215487 TECHNIQUES ---------- hand colouring TECHNIQUES ---------- woodcut CATEGORIES ------ category: print DATING ------ culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 928 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 552 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 928 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 276 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 934 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/mid_P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 548 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 934 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp77/preview_P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/850/large_P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1129 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/850/mid_P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/850/P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 3917 pixels width: 3552 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/850/preview_P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 276 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/850/P_14542_R_1_201611_amt49_mas.ptif height: 3917 pixels width: 3552 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/851/large_P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1123 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/851/mid_P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 548 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/851/P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 4283 pixels width: 3906 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/663/851/preview_P_14542_R_2_201611_amt49_mas.jpg height: 274 pixels width: 250 pixels